Cheese-bandager



(No Model.)

O. D. HADCOOK. CHEESE BANDAGER.

No. 471,756; Patented Mai. 29, 1892.

UNITED STATES PATENT OF ICE.

CHARLES DEWITT HADCOOK, OF HERMON,v YORK.

CHEESE-BANDAGER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 471,756, dated March 29, 1892.

Application filed May l6 1891. Serial No. 392,988. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES DEWITT HAD- COCK, a citizen of the United States, residing at Hermon, in the county of St. Lawrence and State of New York, have invented certain new and. useful Improvements in Cheese-Bandagers; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the specification.

vention may pertain the same consists in the peculiar construction and in the novel combination, arrangement, and adaptation of parts, all as more fully hereinafter described, and shown in the accompanying drawings.

The invention is clearly shown in the accompanying drawings, which, with the letters of reference marked thereon, form a part of this specification, like letters of reference indicating like parts throughout the several views, and in which Figure l is a side view of a cheese-hoop with my improved bandager applied, a portion of the hoop being shown as broken away in order to show the operation of the device. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the same.

Reference now being had to the details of the drawings by letter, A designates the cheese-hoop, which is in all respects similar to those which are commonly used in the manufacture of cheese.

13 represents a band or ring of sheet metal, consisting of a series of sections a a, attached at their ends by means of hinged joints 1) b. This band is provided at intervals upon its outer surface near one of its edges with lugs or projections c, which are adapted to rest upon the upper edge of the cheese-hoop and serve to preventthe band from sinking within the hoop.

In use the bandager is contracted, as shown in dotted lines in Fig. 20f the drawings. The cloth is placed within the hoop and the bandager is then pressed outwardly, forming a continuous hoop or ring which binds against the inner face of the cheese-hoop, and the bandage, which is interposed between the hoop and bandager, will be held smoothly and securely in place.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim to be new, and desire to secureby Letters Patent, is-

The combination, with a cheese-hoop, of a bandage) consisting of a band or ring composed of a series of hinged sections and adapted to be pressed in and out to contract and expand the band and provided with aseries of outwardly-extending lugs or projections adapted to engage the upper edge of the cheese-hoop and serve as a support for the bandager, substantially as and for the purpose described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses. V CHARLES DEWITT HADCOCK.

Witnesses:

N. B. CLARK, R. T. KINNIS. 

